Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United StatesBetween 1820 and 1860, American social reformers invited all people to identify God's image in the victims of war, slavery, and addiction. Identifying the Image of God traces the theme of identification--and its liberal Christian roots--through the literature of social reform, focusing on sentimental novels, temperance tales, and slave narratives, and invites contemporary activists to revive the "politics of identification." |
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Why was it important to depict the transformative potential of identification in a
society— Puritan New England— that had been dead for more than a century?
Whittier's turn to history was not accidental or idiosyncratic; on the contrary, ...
Why was it important to depict the transformative potential of identification in a
society— Puritan New England— that had been dead for more than a century?
Whittier's turn to history was not accidental or idiosyncratic; on the contrary, ...
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Because antebellum liberals believed that virtuous individuals did in fact exist
among the Puritans, as among all human communities, their novel- istic task was
simultaneously to explain the violence of Puritan institutions and the nonviolent ...
Because antebellum liberals believed that virtuous individuals did in fact exist
among the Puritans, as among all human communities, their novel- istic task was
simultaneously to explain the violence of Puritan institutions and the nonviolent ...
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Thus far, Child is simply echoing the Puritans' own understanding of their
community as a city on a hill erected after long ... Third and finally, Child suggests
that the Puritan shadows can best be understood as the consequence of
contingent ...
Thus far, Child is simply echoing the Puritans' own understanding of their
community as a city on a hill erected after long ... Third and finally, Child suggests
that the Puritan shadows can best be understood as the consequence of
contingent ...
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By showing how angelic Puritans could overcome the violence surrounding them
, they suggested that the legacy ot Puritanism lay not in the errors of Puritan
theology but in the affections of Puritan families. This was all the more important ...
By showing how angelic Puritans could overcome the violence surrounding them
, they suggested that the legacy ot Puritanism lay not in the errors of Puritan
theology but in the affections of Puritan families. This was all the more important ...
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Contenido
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From Sentimentality to Social Reform The Emergence of Radical Christian Liberalism | 46 |
The Gospel the Declaration and the Divine Child Theology and Literature of Ultra Reform | 66 |
Looking for Victims Violence and Theology in Temperance Narratives | 102 |
Through the BloodStained Gate Violence Birth and the Imago Dei in Fugitive Slave Narratives | 127 |
Epics of Ambivalence Nonviolent Power in Harriet Beecher Stowes Antislavery Novels | 157 |
Violent Messiahs Radical Christian Liberals and the Civil War | 174 |
Liberal Irony | 215 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 281 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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